Prague, Czech Republic, April 08, 2009 — JetBrains, the creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing development tools, announced today the release of ReSharper 4.5, the company's award-winning productivity tool for Microsoft Visual Studio.
Capitalizing on recent industry recognition — winning a Jolt Productivity Award in March 2009 — ReSharper tackles and attains a new level of efficiency. The latest version significantly improves performance and memory usage, in addition to enhancing solution-wide code analysis, expanding language and technology support, and providing new useful features.
"Keeping performance on the edge is a challenge for any productivity tool," said Valentin Kipiatkov, JetBrains CTO. "Lately we focused a great deal on sharpening ReSharper, so to speak, to bring our .NET customers a faster, more agile Visual Studio experience. As a result, this upgrade introduces the greatest performance boost in recent product history for ReSharper, and we're thrilled about that."
"Companies like JetBrains are an invaluable part of the Visual Studio ecosystem and deliver great value and functionality to developers" said Matt Carter, Group Product Manager for Visual Studio at Microsoft. "ReSharper has been a valuable part of many developers" toolset and continues to add value and innovation to developers in ReSharper 4.5."
The list of ReSharper 4.5 new features and improvements includes:
Smoother Language and Framework Support: Improved compatibility with F#, Compact Framework, Silverlight 2 and other languages and tools.
Complete product information about JetBrains ReSharper is available at http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/.
ReSharper 4.5 is available for a 30-day free trial download at http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/download/. No evaluation license is required.
Owners of versions 4.0 or higher are eligible to upgrade for free.
ReSharper 4.5 is available under commercial and personal licensing. New customers can purchase ReSharper 4.5 online at http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/buy/.
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JetBrains is a technology-leading software development firm specializing in the creation of intelligent, productivity-enhancing software. The company is widely known for its innovative, award-winning Java™ integrated development environment, IntelliJ® IDEA (see details on the Web at http://www.jetbrains.com/idea), ReSharper and dotTrace Profiler for .NET developers (see http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper, http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler), and TeamCity — a continuous integration and build management environment (http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity). JetBrains maintains its headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic, with its R&D labs located in St. Petersburg, Russia and Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, see http://www.jetbrains.com.
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